It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his try and market bike frames. Skip Hess began BMX Products, Inc. out of his house in Simi Valley, California in September 1974 together mongoose hybrid bike with his first product being the well-known Motomag One wheel. In its early years Hess recalled that about 600 frames per day had been produced at its Chatsworth, Los Angeles location.
Brunswick sold Mongoose to Pacific Cycle in 2000 and Pacific Cycle was bought by Montreal-based Dorel Industries in 2004. By combining Pon.Bike and Dorel Sports, a quantity one bicycle company on the earth will be created, with a mixed revenue of round 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a model name of bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a completely owned manufacturing division created for insurance purposes to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, despite the fact that RECO was all the time produced in-house.